San Sebastián

[san suh-bas-chuhn, sahn se-bahs-tyahn]

noun

1. a seaport in northern Spain: a tourist destination and host to an international film festival.

2. a city in northwestern Puerto Rico.

3. a tropical American plant, Cattleya skinneri, having cylindrical leaves and yellow-throated, rose-purple flowers.

San Sebastián

/ san seβasˈtjan, ˌsæn səˈbæstjən /

noun

1. Official name: Donostia-San Sebastián. a port and resort in N Spain on the Bay of Biscay: former summer residence of the Spanish court. Pop: 181 811 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

Winner of the best supporting actress prize at the 2025 San Sebastian Film Festival, Fonzi says Plaate was “amazing since minute one.”

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"Soccer fandom provides a high-ecological-validity model of fanaticism with quantifiable life consequences for health and collective behavior," said lead author Francisco Zamorano, biologist, Ph.D. in medical sciences at Clínica Alemana de Santiago and associate professor at Facultad de Ciencias para el Cuidado de la Salud, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago, Chile.

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San Sebastián calls to us as it did Jake to put a bookend on his own fiesta.

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We retreat to San Sebastián like Jake Barnes before us.

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“Even on a hot day,” Jake writes, “San Sebastián “has a certain early-morning quality.”

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